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From: cg377170@cygnus.uucp (Corey Gehman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Anyone heard Of MORIA
Keywords: Moria!!!
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Date: 10 Jun 90 20:37:00 GMT
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In article <2672A8E1.27160@paris.ics.uci.edu> pstaffor@ics.uci.edu (Paul Douglas Stafford) writes:
>In <9289@hubcap.clemson.edu> cg377170@cygnus.uucp (Corey Gehman) writes:
>>Yes, I'm porting it now.  I've got one known bug and have to add a cursor
>Unfortunately, a version of MORIA has ALREADY been ported to the Amiga, and
>I must say, It's an excellent port.  You should check with the authors:
>
>It's an extraordinarily well-ported game which DOES support the Amiga features
>instead of trying to emulate Unix's weak text version.

Your quite right about the Amiga Moria, but that is *ALMOST* version 4.87
(I believe) and this is version 5.2.1 (About two weeks old).  It's *ALMOST*
version 4.87 (or whatever) because the author of Amiga Moria decided to change
some of the things in the games, for example he added one weapon which isn't
in it with the other versions.  The idea behind my port is so that the source
code of umoria, which is still being developed right now, will have the amiga
port in it.  So when the author of umoria adds to the game it will auto-
matically work (hopefully) on the Amiga.  That way the Amiga version won't
be several versions behind all the time.  Also, to my knowledge, the source
code is not available for the Amiga Moria, the source code for umoria with
the Amiga port in it will be.  The Amiga Moria is very nice, although I hate
the pictures being loaded, but the graphics for characters and buildings are
well done and looks great.  Basically, it comes down to how much is the nice
pictures worth versus the most uptodate version and having the source code.
Everyone can decide for themselves.

ps. I found my bug, so except for not having a cursor, I think the port is done.

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Corey Gehman
cg377170@eng.clemson.edu  (or if that bounces try oronnie@hubcap.clemson.edu)